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Seriously, this. I looked up local STD testing facilities so I could do my bi-annual check, and for months afterward every youtube advertisement banner was for STD screenings. I'd invite my friends to watch a clip or something, they'd leave thinking I have the herp or something.

I'm sure its super convenient not to see ads. But how do you expect sites to survive when people are so against paying for anything. Its not like they are even annoying 99% of the time.. You should be supporting new business methods as the day websites stop being able to pay their staff through ad-revenue they stop existing entirely.

Quietly perusing a website with Pandora in the background(volume controlled using Pandora because I need to be able to hear when my friend is ready to play tribes on skype) when suddenly a wild audio banner ad appears: "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE THE 100 BAJILLIONTH VISITOR, CLICK HERE TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!!!!"

My reason for adblock is that I got tired of the surprise banner ads yelling at me about their product when I had my headphones on. Once in a while I will whitelist a site I visit on a regular basis, but for the most part, I don't trust site maintainers to make good advertising decisions anymore.

I see adds. It's a very rare form of synesthesia. They're kind of blue, with lots of hard angles. I think integrations look the coolest. They're a dark pinkish color with neat, super complex swirly pattern.

Anything revolving around finding a specific issue about a specific piece of hardware via it's serial number. There is never a single person in the entire universe who has replicated the types of errors I can somehow manage to do.

I always try and respond to those message boards if I have figured out the solution to the problem. As and IT guy I would say I have done this quite a few times. What I really hate though is when it's a really old thread and it's "locked". Makes me feel bad for the next person who has to spend hours figuring it out.

Especially when you just resolved te same issue!! You want to let the world know that there is a solution!! (Also it always seems to be a relatively simple solution, even though I was troubleshooting forever, WTF)

yes, I had trouble doing adding an event to google calendar in php using 2-legged authentication, and finally, on the second page of results, 9th result down, in the comments to a post someone mentioned "add 'v=3' as a get-parameter, it solved the problem for me." AND SO IT DID FOR ME!

Word. Sometimes my friends will give me a hard time when I ask something like, "What was the show about?" or "What's this book like?" I like to hear about this kind of stuff from people I know within a context that I'm familiar with. It's fun to discuss this stuff. I don't want to ask someone how their weekend was and get a "Let me Google that for you" link.

Typically, unless you're looking for a concrete definition, an address or some other defined information, everything is open to interpretation. What is fact for some, may not be for others.

It's much more reassuring to be presented with real, living and breathing opinions than some faceless data. Why Google "what do girls find attractive in guys" when I can just ask a group of girls here and get a wide variety of results.

Oho! The first link is an askreddit about this. I'll click on that. Here's a Google search link. That will answer my question. Hmmm... Turns out it goes to an ask reddit. Let's see what people are saying.

Have you ever tried to sift through the muck that us Yahoo! Answers and every other random forum out there. Chances are at least a few people have a decent amount of knowledge of whatever question is asked here.

Unless the question is something so common, like why does the earth rotate the sun, then I don't know.

My interest was sparked though at somebody asking "Did hitler actually ever kill anybody", apart from himself like.. And somebody else just went through wikipedia until they found the answer, then linked the article...

Shouldn't the question then be: "Why do so many people upvote questions that can easily be answered by a Google search?"

The sidebar itself says:

AskReddit is for thought-provoking, inspired questions.

So the best thing to do would be downvote it and move on. But with a subreddit this size, it's likely that some people may find a question thought-provoking and worthy of discussion while others will find it mundane and only worth of a quick Google search.

Because answers from Google lack the understanding that comes from perspective. If I ask Google about John Wayne, it'll tell me a lot about him. If I ask my friend that's a film professor, I'll get a wholly different answer.

No, not really. You still get "new" pages linking to old material. You still get url redirections. And worst of all you get plenty of links, linking to other search engines for the exact same search query. I still find it much more accurate to ask a question in a related DISCUSSION forum or subforum.

Googling anything even remotely controversial is still difficult. Its hard to find unbiased information on things that involve politics and money. Of course, reddit is hardly any different... but sometimes you get an altruistic expert.

I do understand your frustration, but I'm still OK with it. People like to feel like they're part of something, so they ask their "friends" in order to start a conversation. It's not so much about being unwilling to look things up, but some folks crave interaction, and I'm OK with that.

It's not just that they want to inquire about facts that are easily looked up - Some folks like to gain personal insight. We all know how the internet works, so don't bust on people who like personal interaction. You always have the option of not reading/not responding.

Apparently people only read the title and not the additional text. The OP is specifically talking about facts (ie: rules for the Champions League Tournament which you can get on Wikipedia) and not opinion, viewpoint, or discussion.

I see this a lot in r/soccer where new fans post questions like how many spots does Italy get in the Champions League whereas it would be much quicker and more detailed if you just read a few paragraphs of a Wikipedia article.

In my experience, sometimes it's hard to get a straight answer out of google. Plus, if I ask X person on reddit how to do something, and I have problems with the answer he gives me, I can go right back to him to be like, "Yo, why isn't it working?" You can't always do that on google. It also gives you a chance to interact with the community. People can share their stories and get feedback from others besides just the OP.

$.02

Edit: I also have that fucking "google virus" or whatever that causes every fucking page to redirect to some bullshit search engine. :( So fuck google right now.

I agree. Some people have 'MUST suck folk into my tiny cubicle of thought' disease. It's prolly due to their parents cooing positively about absolutely ANYTHING they ever did as children. Now they see everyone else as a source of information or entertainment. And they will talk about anything at all, provided it's their idea.

mostly because of what happened with you. googling with no success, 500 pages of results that may not offer exactly what they're looking for. Plus reddit is an awesome place to interact with other people and get different opinions.

mostly because of what happened with you. googling with no success, 500 pages of results that may not offer exactly what they're looking for. Plus reddit is an awesome place to interact with other people and get different opinions.

Can't really speak for others, but I do it for the semblance of human interaction. I would rather have a plain-speak response, formulated by a person who thought it up on the spot after reading my question with their eyes.

I said this to a co-worker the other day but from the opposite direction... sometimes it feels good to get up walk down the hall and ask someone a question, even when google could have answered it 2-3 mins quicker... the human element is worth a lot more.

If this question were asked on every website that offers discussion and everyone decided they would Google their questions, then the answers would more than likely not be out there... If the question isn't asked, then it's probably not answered anywhere...

I'd just like to point out as a person with a philosophy degree that most of the so-called "philosophical questions" people post here have a large amount of serious academic discussion out there. Most of those people would get a much better idea of the topic by googling it than by asking reddit's opinion. Just because it is philosophical doesn't mean there isn't an answer or it is just an opinion.

"We know that linking to a Google Account can be confusing, and so we've done our best ... When I refreshed my YouTube tabs, they all came up with the same message, saying ... "While I do understand that Youtube is run by Google, I find that forcing .... Your not ASKING people to link to a google account."

Sometimes it can be difficult to find a current and still valid answer to your question on Google among tons of outdated articles. For example, a friend told me that there's an iOS app out for Google Music. I forgot the name of it, so I Googled, and I got a flood of articles about Google's web app, which was not what I was looking for. It'd be easier at this point to ask someone.